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How some farmers are feeling about Biden's election

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Nov 10, 2020
Iowa corn and soybean farmer April Hemmes says farmers are wondering how quickly Biden will undo some of Trump's policies.
"Agriculture around here really, really focuses on livestock and the biofuels," says April Hemmes, above on her farm in Hampton, Iowa, in 2019.
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What the phase one deal means for one Iowa farmer

by Andie Corban and Kai Ryssdal
Jan 15, 2020
Corn and soybean farmer April Hemmes isn't sure she'll be able to regain the Chinese buyers she lost during the trade war.
An Iowa corn farm in 2015.
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Farming during a trade war

by Daisy Palacios
Oct 21, 2019
The loss of soybean sales to China have created a lot of stress, says farmer Blake Hurst.
Blake Hurst on his farm in Atchinson County, MO.
Courtesy of Blake Hurst
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Canadian farmers caught in the middle of U.S.-China disputes

by Emma Jacobs
Sep 30, 2019
Since Canada detained Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou late last year, Chinese imports of several agricultural crops have slowed or stopped altogether.
Soybeans growing on a farm in Canada.
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After the flood comes the enormous pile of burning soybeans

by Peggy Lowe
Aug 22, 2019
Following severe flodding in the Midwest, a pile of 650,000 bushels of soybeans in rural Missouri spontaneously combusted and have been burning for a month.
This pile of soybeans, once 650,000 bushels, has been burning since mid-July.
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Soybean commodity traders are skeptical of renewed U.S.-China trade negotiations

by Daniel Shin
Jul 1, 2019
Al Kluis, managing director of Kluis Commodity Advisors, thinks traders won't see the soybean market turn until there are real orders and action taken.
Soybeans are loaded onto a truck to be taken to a grain elevator in Dwight, Illinois.
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Trade deficit widens in March

by Kimberly Adams
May 9, 2019
The overall deficit getting bigger isn't necessarily a bad thing, said Dan Ikenson, director of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute.
Container ships are docked at the Port of Oakland on March 06, 2019 in California.
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Bad weather and trade complicate planting for Midwest farmers

by Peggy Lowe
Apr 22, 2019
Flood damage has made things extremely difficult.
Farmer Richard Oswald, standing on U.S. 136 near Rock Port, Missouri. In the background is a flooded grain elevator, where millions of bushels of corn and soybeans are rotting in the water.
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Lots of soybeans with no place to go

by Andy Uhler
Nov 6, 2018
A Chinese tariff on the U.S. crop has shut down a critical market.
Soybeans are loaded onto a truck before delivery to a grain elevator in June in Dwight, Illinois. 
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Here’s how deficit-inducing tax cuts lead to trade deficits

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Sep 5, 2018
The U.S. trade deficit in July surged to a five-month high, $50.1 billion, as exports of products like soybeans and civilian aircraft fell, while imports reached record levels. President Donald Trump regularly complains about trade deficits, but his own spending policies tend to undermine the goal of lowering the trade gap. One part of the […]
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